Jorge, you know how much I love Winstep... but I have to request one thing.

Could you please go over the version numbering? 

I currently have Winstep Extreme v. 11.6 . 

Nexus as well as Nexus Extreme should be numbered the same, no?

So what is 11.1 referring to? Your last release had them both updated at the same time to 11.6.

I know, it's bad everywhere.

Anyway, v11.10 will be more of an 'emergency' release than anything else (meaning I usually like to amass lots more new cool features before releasing a new version) because of Weather.com's warning that it will cut the weather feed on October 31st. This will affect all weather forecasts in the weather module/widget - and also current weather conditions for all locations that do not have a METAR code. As such, I changed things so the weather module automatically falls back on Google's weather feed if/when that happens. With the Google feed you'll only get a 4 day - instead of a 5 day - forecast, but, other than that, the weather module will continue working normally.

Apart from this, there are some nice new things, to mention just a few:

1. The 'Attention' and 'Launch' effects (which previously were limited to flash and bounce, respectively) can now each be set to any of the 16+ available dock mouse over effects.

2. v11.6 already allowed you to customize system tray icons with high resolution images, even animated or multi-state ones (I believe Winstep applications are currently the only applications that allow you to do the latter), but v11.10 improves on that a bit by allowing you to disable system tray customization altogether to save resources if you're not into that, and exclude specific applications from the customization list (some applications use system tray icons to display histogram data, such as CPU activity, which is random data and therefore cannot be customized). It also adds a new tab in Preferences dedicated to System Tray settings.

3. You can now configure the Desktop Modules in Winstep Xtreme to remain visible when pressing WIN+D (Show Desktop) or when mousing over the 'Show Desktop' mini-tab on the Windows 7 taskbar. Same goes for the Shelf.

4. New 'Start Flip3D' internal command, which you can add to a dock or the NextSTART taskbar for quick access.

5. Docks can now be activated even when running a maximized Google Chrome window that covers the full screen (a maximized Chrome window acted as a full screen window when appearing on a secondary monitor or if the taskbar was hidden. This would automatically disable all edge bump activation methods, a feature implemented to prevent users from being accidentaly dumped into the desktop when playing full screen games).

6. Fixed a bug that caused an animated icon associated to the main Nexus control icon to stop animating after a while, and settings specific to that animated icon are now preserved between runs.

7. More miscellaneous bug fixes and features.

It's not v11.1, it's v11.*10*. Not '11.one', but '11.ten'. Nexus and Xtreme share the same version number to avoid confusion, and understanding Winstep's version numbering it's actually pretty easy once you know the 'secret':

It's simply based on date of release, i.e.; year.month. So, v11.6 means that version was released on June 2011. v11.10 means that version was released on October 2011.

This was done because, as you know, Winstep Xtreme is a suite of independent applications (NextSTART, WorkShelf, etc...). As such, instead of having different version numbers for each app, they all share the same version number which is then based on the date of release, as explained above.

Ahhh...ok... now I understand. I was just reading the version number as a sequential number, not even imagining it related to date.

So it's    Version.month of release   (11.10)

edit:   Year.month   (2011.October)

Thanks for taking the time to explain, Jorge. Hope that doesn't mean, "I'd tell you the secret but then....".

I'd love to say, "Now I'll never ask again", but at my age....





lol

Nope, sorry Doc, it's year of release.month of release

sheesh. you have to keep changing it? just when i don't get it?.... what was the question again?

(fixed) 

ahh sorry didnt read it all the way :  Note that this Nexus Ultimate promotion also allows you to upgrade to Winstep Xtreme (a single easy-to-install package featuring all of Winstep’s popular desktop enhancement products for Windows) for only $14.95 (normal price for Winstep Xtreme is $39.90).